New Grant Awards August 2025

July 25, 2025 • 3:56 p.m.

		Bin Gong, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology John Sealy School of Medicine Yuejin Liang, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology John Sealy School of Medicine
		New five-year National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) research grant award: "Pre-clinical studies to repurpose FDA-approved adenosine A2A receptor antagonists for lethal rickettsial infection"

Petr G. Leiman, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology John Sealy School of Medicine New five-year outstanding investigator research grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS): "Function and application of contractile injection systems and jumbophage RNA polymerases"